Policy and Complex Systems
will there be a significant reduction of the poverty rate of 36 percent in the sample group ? The next step is to determine if that reduction can be attributed to the twentyfirst century problem-solving approach of framing . This will be gauged by analyzing the variance in the change of the sample ’ s poverty rate each year . Conducting analysis of variance also will be done for each of the sample ’ s terminal objectives listed in Table 4 . As data is obtained , this study will seek to determine if change is due to routine variance or because of activities driven by the framing process . If the overall poverty rate of the sample is reduced and that reduction is assessed to be significant , a correlation can be drawn between framing and resolving poverty .
Conclusion
Policymakers in the U . S . have attempted to solve or alleviate the effects of wicked problems for decades . Results of these efforts have been met with skepticism . U . S . antipoverty efforts ( beginning in 1964 ) and their results serve as an archetypal example of decades of policymakers ’ attempts to solve a wicked problem with antipoverty policy not significantly reducing poverty in the U . S .
Having coined the term “ wicked problem ,” Rittel and Webber ( 1973 ) deemed that the nature of complex adaptive problems renders them incapable of being solved only resolved . Further , wicked problems require inventive thought and strategies that match their adaptive nature in order to be resolved . Expounding on
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